Single car garage or two car deep garage

it is looking like it is going to be tough to build a standard two car garage on my new house. The driveway isn't wide enough to allow for the setbacks my city requires . I am definitely going to do a one car, but may be doing a one car wide but two car deep garage. Not sure how this would look or work, but any ideas or suggestions would be cool.

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (UKGTI)

Only worry about doing it two deep would be how it will look. Might be really ugly and oddly proportioned. Of course, you could make it as wide as possible and have some storage available on the side, and then make it two deep but try to limit it to 35' or so in length. That wouldn't look too bad.

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (Oliver@triplezoom)

Two wide, two deep is what we are doing at my house right now, and it looks good, because it is proportional, not sure what a single wide double deep would look. Is it attached to the house? If so, I would be worried that the house would look like a big "L"

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (VR6JetPilot)

how about a garage somewhere in the middle of the driveway with roll up doors on each side? just an idea

my parents friend actually did this, they had a single driveway with 2 garage doors on each side to fit 2 -3 cars in it. in the back walk about 15 ft your in the pool... [IMG]http://**********************/smile/emthup.gif[/IMG]

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (llllllllll)

We're doing a lot of house shopping right now, and we did look at one house that had a "single file" 2 car garage.
It was not as nice as a standard 2 car, but far better than a single car. I say go for it if that's what your options are limited to.

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (POPE)

all i have say is 2 deep car garages suck!!!!! i have one at my place a college it blows! [IMG]http://**********************/smile/emthdown.gif[/IMG]

So are you saying you would rather have a ONE car garage than a TWO car single-file, garage?
I would rather have a 'traditional' garage but given the choices he has I would opt for the two car single-file over just a single

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (Air_Cooled_Nut)

For us it was very hard to find a side by side two car garage (in a townhouse) in our price range. So we have a single file two car garage. It usually works out as I leave before and come home after my wife does from work. Our neighbors across the street have a one car garage, and one car on the driveway but they get an extra room in lieu of the bigger garage. I rather house my cars than have that extra room.
Make it a two garage if you can, your cars will love you for it

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (UKGTI)

What about a standard one car with a higher ceiling height. You could then add a lift and store one on top of the other. The cost and instilation of the lift HAS to be less then the materials and construction cost of a two car garage vs a one car.

Re: Single car garage or two car deep garage (CBJ)

It isn't like it takes 2 hours to get one up or down. They are pretty quick.

No, but it's needlessly complicating the solution. It's no more better than the situation a two car single file garage would create. Possibly it's even less desirable. because the expense of a lift brings into the equation, not to mention limited clearance for the car on the lift would limit the size of the cars you could stow up there. And I can imagine it wouldn't be an attractive item for most home buyers if down the road they decided to sell.

or you could make an out door carport over your driveway ... i donno i'd rather have a one car garage with an extra room, the area in which you spend most of your day will be bigger, and better resale when you look to move on.